Since 12 years, HumaniTerra sends surgical care teams to the Koh-Kong province and develops the National Centre of reconstructive surgery and burn patients of Phnom-Penh.

CARE MISSIONS AND SURGICAL TRAINING (KOH KONG REGIONAL HOSPITAL AND PREAH KOSSAMAK HOSPITAL IN PHNOM PENH)

HumaniTerra International has been present in Cambodia since 1998, in the isolated islands of the Koh Kong Province, through surgical care programs and training.

HumaniTerra has already financed the training of 12 medical staff and hospital management staff from the Koh-Kong hospital, in France and on location, more precisely reconstructive surgeons and nurse anaesthetists.

HumaniTerra, in partnership with the Cambodian Health Ministry is currently supporting the Preah Kossamak hospital with an extensive constant training program that teaches the surgical staff reconstructive surgery. Theoretical lectures and surgical companionship are the key elements to the training program. The country’ first ever National Centre of reconstructive surgery and burn patients will be opened once the capacity building program is finished. To reach this goal, HumaniTerra will send each year five reconstructive surgery missions until the opening of the centre. The missions will look after the most underprivileged all the while training surgical teams.

HumaniTerra is invited each year to the Cambodian Society of Surgery’s Days of Surgery and gives many lectures.

CREATION OF A NATIONAL CENTRE OF RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY AND BURN PATIENTS IN PHNOM-PENH

Following a request from the Cambodian Health Ministry, HumaniTerra was asked to construct a Pilot Centre for reconstructive surgery and burn patients in Phnom-Penh. The Cambodian context is marked by the virtual-inexistence of a public system caring for severely burnt patients, people suffering from congenital deformities or severe traumatic sequelae.

To meet this objective, the Health Ministry has provided 800 m² on the highest floor of the Preah Kossamak hospital. The Centre will house a surgical unit, a burn unit and a functional re-education unit for the patients. It will also be open to other partners such as Doctors of the World’s Opération Sourire.

Keeping in mind its methodology, HumaniTerra will oversee the centre’s construction and furbishing projects as well as the medical and administrative staff’s training and companionship, before a progressive departure.

SURGICAL MISSIONS AND EQUIPMENT SUPPORT FOR KOH KONG AND PHNOM-PENH

HumaniTerra sends eight missions a year to the Koh Kong islands as well as the Preah Kossamak hospital in Phnom-Penh : reconstructive, orthopaedic and paediatric surgery, ophthalmology, odontostomatology, ENT, obstetrics and gynaecology, and dermatology. Over 500 underprivileged patients are treated each year by HumaniTerra’s teams. The conditions include cleft lips, facial and cranial deformities, congenital hand, abdomen and perineum malformations, club foot, cataracts, burn sequelae, hernias and skin tumours.

HumaniTerra supports the Koh Kong province hospital’s equipment needs: installation of a new dental cabinet, an anaesthetics department, an ophthalmology departments and the refurbishment of the operating theatre… The equipment is chosen to suit the local maintenance capacities.